The Rehabilitation of New Left Terrorists

This week, the rehabilitation of the most extreme of the New Left groups -- The Weather Underground -- entered a new stage.

Yesterday, The New York Post revealed that convicted felon Kathy Boudin -- who was released from jail a decade ago after serving 22 years for her role as getaway driver in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck robbery -- was given the position of Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of Social Work.

At the same time, Boudin was also(!) given a position held concurrently at New York University, where she was appointed Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence. She recently gave a lecture for that program on “the politics of parole and re-entry,” something which she obviously knows about.

There are, of course, many other candidates who could have been given both positions, and none of them were part of a leftist terrorist group whose action resulted in the death of the first African-American police officer in that area, and two other police officers. Two of the three had families; children grew up without their fathers.

Nine children.

When she was pulled over, Boudin shouted to the officers whose guns were drawn: “put the gun back.” They put their revolvers in their holsters.

At that point -- as the officers went to inspect the back of the van she was driving -- her cohorts came out with weapons blazing, killing the two policemen and one other who had joined in pursuit.

[Boudin is a] murderess who betted the cold-blooded massacre of three law-enforcement officers, including the first African-American on the Nyack police force; a woman whose actions left nine children fatherless and who has shown no genuine remorse for that.